Balloons Quote by Vern Rutsala

Sometimes I observe stuff I haven't been through and write about it. I used to walk my dog with these 50-year-olds, and they'd tell…

— Jorja Smith

I used to get in trouble at school for day-dreaming.

— Nick Park

They trespassed upon my thoughts. They were intruders whose knowledge of life was to me an irritating pretense, because I felt so sure they…

— Joseph Conrad

In 1975, when my students were kidnapped by rebels, I was accused of hiding instead of trying to save them, and of not giving…

— Jane Goodall

“At home, I was in charge of cleaning up the dog poop left in the yard. I never did find my homework that was…

— Thee Ace Man

When my sixth grade teacher opened the class with subtle praise for the guardsmen shooting four people to death at Kent State, I'd given…

— Jello Biafra

When I was seven and told my mom, 'I'm gonna be a writer,' she said, 'Oh, that's a terrible idea. You'll live in misery…

— Stephen Gaghan

I already killed you once today, what does it take to teach some people?

— Neil Gaiman

On the first day of school, I tell all my students to rip up their textbooks, and then I leave before their real teacher…

— Victoria Beryl Zelinski

There were books all over the house, and I was always told that I could write and that it was something good to do.…

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

“My schoolmates hurried home the way they always did, the bold kids scuffling and shouting and the timid, gawky ones yearning toward a brief…

— Janice Steinberg

Then one day my sister abandoned me at the 1939 World's Fair, and that incident is the essence of In the Night Kitchen. I…

— Maurice Sendak